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Twenty-year-old Dorothea "Dora" Goerk
(b.1883) was a dressmaker. She was the youngest of four
children; both parents were deceased. They were Heinrich" Henry" Goerk (1828-1899), a
blacksmith, and Dorothea "Dora" Oehlson Goerk (1842-1887)* Dora's siblings
were Adolph (1870-1928), Henry (1866-1942) and Lizzie
(1864-1947).
Dora's body was identified by her brother, plumber Adolph Goerk,
at Jordan's Undertakers, and her sister's home was
the sight of her funeral. Lizzie Goerk was married
to Paul Schaeppi and had five children. Buriel
was in the family plot at Graceland
Cemetery.
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Twenty-four-year-old William C. H. Bartsch (b. 1879)
was described in a 1903 Chicago city directory as
being a "newsman" and in a 1901 list as a
postman. He was the son of the late Conrad Joseph
Bartsch (1844-1901), a tailor who emigrated from
Germany, and Sophie Bartsch (1848-1934), and had two
siblings, Hugo Bartsch and Annie Bartsch
(1873-1897). In 1903 William and his mother lived at
329 Hudson St.
William was buried at Rosehill Cemetery. In the
family plot is a sister named Anna Bartsch
(1873-1897) and his mother, Sophie Bartsch
(1848-1934)
In the years after the fire
In 1905 Adolph Goerk married Paulina Diesling.
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Discrepancies and addendum
* The last name was sometimes spelled Gork. One
Chicago newspaper reported that she was ten years
old. Until recently, I confused Dora's mother with
her stepmother, Dorothy Maass Goerk, who Dora's
father remarried five years after the death of
Dora's mother.
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